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When performing wellness for others makes you lose touch with your reality

I realized I've been performing wellness so convincingly that even I started to believe it was real. The gap between how I present and how I feel is making me feel like a fraud in my own life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social demand for palatable illness creates an exhausting split between public presentation and private experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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